12 Jan
1999
12 Jan
'99
2:31 a.m.
From: "D. Peschel"
<dpeschel(a)u.washington.edu>
Second version - 1968 (?) - The one I mentioned. The
same as ours except
for the underline being a left arrow and the caret being an upward-pointing
arrow. I think the control characters had their modern names
I don't think that's correct. The original (1963) version of ASCII
used an up-arrow and left-arrow instead of caret and underline, but
by the time of the proposed extension to lowercase (1965) these had
changed to their current shapes.
By the way, R. W. Bemer's article in the May, 1978 Interface Age seems
to indicate that he would have preferred that ^ and _ be used right
from the start, but that Teletype had already
manufactured equipment
with the arrow symbols so that was how they appeared in the
first
standard. There's no mention of this in the August, 1963 Communications
of the ACM, though.
eric